Veel voorkomende criminaliteit op de Nederlandse Antillen 1992

Rate of criminality on three islands of the Netherlands Antilles: Bonaire, Curaçao and St. Maarten. Feelings of fear and unrest with regard to crime / if respondent was ever a victim of: burglary, theft from garden, porch or yard, theft from car or joy-riding, robbery and pickpocketing, theft of other belongings, vandalism, violence outdoors, driving on after a traffic accident, other criminal acts (data concerning opinion of population about police were not stored at the Steinmetz Archive). Background variables: basic characteristics/ household characteristics/ characteristics of parental family/household/ occupation/employment/ income/capital asset

Beyond Engel’s Law - Pursuing an Engelian Approach to Welfare: A Cross Country Analysis

Engel's law is known to be extraordinarily consistent across time and space. Accordingly, it has been widely used to determine poverty. However, also among the poorest, a certain amount of non food spending is necessary. To substantiate the distinction between necessities and luxuries, already Ernst Engel (1895) approached a behaviorally founded comprehensive assessment of structural changes in consumer expenditures. To build upon Engel's legacy and to complement the scare empirical literature, a behavioral approach is applied. It is conjectured that differences in satiation patterns of universally shared needs translate, on the aggregate level, into different shapes of Engel curves and thus also into different income elasticities of demand. Utilizing a nonparametric regression technique, it is explored whether and which expenditure categories change systematically with rising income. In line with the theoretical expectations, a number of empirical regularities in consumer expenditure patterns can be identified that go well beyond Engel's law